From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema
What makes ‘The Holdovers’ so enjoyable is that it’s intelligent and well-crafted. It’s no wonder that Paul Giamatti and Da’vine Joy Randolph are gearing up to the winners of the Oscars in their category.